Excerpt from The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

It is said that some people absorb the cellular essence of a twin while still in the womb--perhaps Fidelis was one of those. Maybe he was simply of that old Germanic stock who roamed the forests and hung their god from the tree of life.

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